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Archive: Sun Tech Days 06-07

 Below is an archive of presentations, speakers, and venues for the OpenSolaris portion of the Sun Tech Days tour in 2006 and 2007. Current Tech Days info for the 2009 tour can be found here.

Seattle, United States, September 6-8, 2006

Shanghai, China, September 22-24, 2006

Beijing, China, September 27-29, 2006

Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 23-25, 2006

Seoul, Korea, November 8-10, 2006

Prague, Czech Republic, November 14-16, 2006

Atlanta, United States, January 16-17, 2007

Hyderabad, India, February 21-23, 2007

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, March 6-8, 2007

London, United Kingdom, March 13-15, 2007

  • OpenSolaris Welcome, Bill Franklin
  • The Zen of Free, Simon Phipps
  • Building and Deploying OpenSolaris, Gary Pennington
  • OpenSolaris Kernel Debugging, Max Bruning
  • OpenSolaris Virtualization Technologies, Chris Beal
  • New Security Features in OpenSolaris, Darrren Moffat
  • Solaris Performance, Observability & Debugging, Chris Beal

Paris, France, March 19-21, 2007

St. Petersburg, Russia, April 11-13, 2007

Sao Paulo, Brazil, April 18-20, 2007

Mexico City, Mexico, May 16-18, 2007

Washington, DC, United States, June 6-8, 2007

OpenSolaris Tech Days  Speakers

Chris Armes: Chris is the Director of Solaris Revenue Products Engineering (RPE) for EMEA, based out of the UK. RPE is part of the Solaris engineering organisation, within Sun's Software business unit. The RPE team are primarily focused on the ongoing sustaining engineering of the shipping releases of Solaris, although a good portion of the time is also spent working on the next release of Solaris. The tight integration and co-operation with the New Product Engineering (NPE) team is one of the key success factors of Solaris. Chris also spends a lot of time driving the high quality and feature rich message of Solaris 10 out to the field, its all about "Delivering on the Promise of Solaris 10" as his boss would say. Chris coined the phrase "Solaris 10, the highest quality operating system we have ever released" something that has absolutely seen being born out in deployment. Chris joined Sun in 1999 and has over 16 years of experience in the industry including software engineering of operating systems and application software for military usage. He has a BSc (HONS) degree in Computing Science from Staffordshire University. When he is not working he is married with two children, a dog, a cat and rabbit and enjoys Amateur Dramatics in what little spare time he has left.

Chris Beal: Chris Beal is a Senior Staff Engineer working with Solaris Revenue Product Engineering. This team fixes the bugs found by customers. As a kernel engineer is the team chris has resolved many critical customer issues in areas as diverse as filesystems, predicitive self healing, scheduling and virtualization. As the lead engineer in the team Chris encourages the team to work the new and exciting technologies in OpenSolaris. Chris is curentley working on implementing solaris 10 on the Xen Hypervisor platform.

Russ Blaine: Russell Blaine has been a developer in the Solaris Kernel group at Sun for six years. His areas of expertise include virtualization technologies, Solaris on x86 and AMD64, CPU performance counters, system call interfaces, and interrupt management. He most recently completed work on the BrandZ project, bringing linux emulation to Solaris Zones. He came to Sun in 2000 after receiving a BSE in Computer Science from Princeton University. and Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL). Before he joined Sun, Erik worked at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science.  He holds degrees from Linkoping University, Stanford University, and Uppsala University.

Bev Crair: As Senior Director of the Solaris NAS team, Bev Crair leads the Solaris organization's file system and file sharing development team, responsible for ZFS, NFS, CIFS, and other NAS technologies. Prior to this, Bev served as Director of the Solaris Organization in various roles, including at Sun's China Engineering and Research Institute in Beijing, China for 18 months. She was a recipient of Sun's SMI Leadership Award in 2005. Bev has been with Sun since 1999. She holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and an MBA from the Graziadio School of Management at Pepperdine University.

Scott Dickson: Scott Dickson is an twelve-year Sun veteran and a twenty-plus-year Sun user. Working directly with customers in the field, Scott has focused on developing Solaris-based solutions for large and small enterprise customers, primarily in the communications and transportation industries. Currently, Scott is part of a team whose mission is to help customers move to Solaris 10 and to put in place methodologies to more easily move forward as new releases of Solaris are available. Prior to coming to Sun, Scott spent nearly ten years as a system administrator and applications programmer in a variety of Unix and mainframe systems. Scott received both his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Computer Science from Penn State University.

Nicolas Droux: Nicolas Droux is a Senior Staff Engineer with the Solaris Core Technologies group at Sun Microsystems. He is currently working on the challenges surrounding networking performance and virtualization. In the recent past he was leading the effort that delivered Project Nemo a new high-performance device driver framework in Solaris. Nicolas was also a part of the Solaris security engineering team where he worked on the Solaris Cryptographic framework and rearchitected the Solaris IPsec implementation for improved performance and scalability. Nicolas received his B.S. degree in Computer Science from the Biel School of Engineering, Switzerland, in 1992.

Glen Faden: Glenn Faden is a Senior Software Engineer in the Solaris Security Technologies Group, and has worked at Sun for 17 years. He is currently the architect for Solaris Trusted Extensions, and was one of the architects for Trusted Solaris and Role-Based Access Control. He designed Sun's multilevel desktops based on Open Look and CDE, and is currently an advisor to the team developing Trusted JDS. Glenn has made extensive contributions to the Solaris security foundation, including Access Control Lists, Auditing, Device Allocation, and OS Virtualization. He also developed the RBAC and Process Rights Management tools for the Solaris Management Console. He has authored several articles for Sun's Blueprints website, and the Solaris Developer Connection. Glenn previously worked for Qubix, OmniCad, and Gould Computer Systems in Desktop Publishing and OS development. He has an MS in Computer Science from Florida Institue of Technology.

Moinak Ghosh: I work in the Solaris Sustaining Team in SUN's India Engineering Center at Bangalore, working on OS libraries, utilities, and also handling Security vulnerability issues. Apart from this I am involved with a variety of activities around OpenSolaris, that include driving the Bangalore OpenSolaris User Group, OpenSolaris projects and talks and some kernel hacking. I developed the now popular OpenSolaris community distribution called BeleniX more than a year back working entirely in my free time (http://www.belenix.org/). This is a community project maintained on volunteer effort. I have been in this industry for the past 10 years of which I spent 9 years working mostly on Solaris and sometimes on Linux. I worked at the Cisco Offshore development center at HCL Chennai on Networking Technologies prior to joining SUN.

Jim Grisanzio: Jim Grisanzio is a Sr. Program Manager on the OpenSolaris Project. He is based out of the Sun's Tokyo office and works for the company's OpenSolaris kernel engineering organization in California. He has managed multiple engineering and community-development efforts at Sun, and he has a background in technical communications and project management. He blogs at http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris

Jim Hughes: James is a Sun Fellow and VP of Sun Microsystems. Currently the CTO of the Solaris Operating System, he has influence over the future direction of one of the most deployed operating systems in enterprises today.A recognized expert in the area of Storage Security, he is also the chair of the IEEE Security In Storage workgroup defining storage encryption and is the past and current chair of the IEEE Security in Storage Workshop. Formerly with StorageTek, Network Systems and Control Data Corp, he has over 32 years in the Storage and Networking industry.

Wyllys Ingersoll: Wyllys is a Senior Staff Engineer in the Solaris Security organization. He joined Sun in October 2000 and has since worked on a variety of security related projects. During his time at Sun he has worked on the Kerberos codebase and was the tech lead for updating many native Solaris network utilities to use Kerberos. He has worked on parts of the cryptographic framework and most recently has been focusing on creating a set of unified key management interfaces for Solaris. He has over 10 years of experience in internet and computer security. Wyllys has a BS in Computer Engineering from Lehigh University and an MS in Computer Science from Virginia Tech.

Stephen Hahn: Stephen Hahn is a Senior Staff Engineer in the Solaris Product Group at Sun Microsystems. He is presently the technical lead for the OpenSolaris program at Sun, and is focused on modifying the company's internal software development processes to be more inclusive of and transparent to the wider community. In Solaris 10, Stephen led the design and development of the Solaris Service Management Facility. Previous work has been focused on service and resource management at the operating system level, particularly in building foundations forautomated resource managers. His research interests are broad, and include describing meaningful application interdependencies, predictable systems behaviour, and implementing high performance sort algorithms. He received his PhD in Theoretical Physics from Brown University, before joining Sun in 1997.

Stephen Harpster: As Director of Sun's Open Source Software group, Stephen Harpster is tasked with creating an open development community and delivering open source software, including OpenSolaris, the Java Desktop System (JDS), and the X Window System for the Solaris platform. Sun sponsors a variety of open source projects, which support innovation and rapid development. Producing open systems has been the hallmark of Sun's business philosophy since its founding. Stephen has been with Sun for more than 10 years. Most recently, he was responsible for leading Sun's Linux Software Engineering group, providing Linux and Linux applications for Sun's Intel and Opteron processor-based systems. Stephen also managed the Cobalt software organization shortly after Sun's acquisition of Cobalt, and previously, the Solaris Internet Engineering group, responsible for Solaris network protocols. Before joining Sun in 1996, Stephen was a software engineer for Hughes Network Systems and Tellabs developing telecommunications software. He holds a B.S. in Information and Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Northwestern University.

Kathy Jenks: Kathy Jenks is the Director of Security Technologies. Her charter is to build a strong cryptographic foundation for Solaris security products and to deliver authentication technologies that are critical elements of the solutions to complex network computing problems. Kathy joined Sun over 20 years ago as a software engineer and soon moved to the organization that later became part of the Solaris group. She held her 1st management position in 1994, became a senior manager in the Solaris Security organization in 2000, and was appointed Director in 2004. She has been an active and contributing member of the SMI security community, most notably a founding member of the Security Strategy Team.

Peter Karlsson: Peter Karlsson is a Solaris Technology Evangelist who works with developers to adopt technologies delivered through the Solaris Operating Environment. Prior to joining the Evangelists, Peter had been working in the North/North-Eastern Europe sales support organization for five years. There he was senior product specialist focusing on Solaris Operating Environment and related technologies. Peter has also worked in the Sun MDE I/O-technologies and solutions, supporting third-party ISV's with device driver development.

Shiva Kumar: Shiv's career spans over 7 years with Siemens Communication Software. He started his career developing TMN application software for the Siemens switching system for the wireline networks. Subsequently moved on to become part of the Software Engineering best practices group and Quality Management group. He has held QM responsibilities for a large-scale multi-site mobile core projects. As the youngest auditor at that point of time, and author of many of the software development processes/sub-processes, he helped setup the QMS for the organisation. Shiv has served some of the technical bodies of IEEE in variety of capacities. He has been Secretary & Vice-Chair of IEEE CCEM(Computer, Communication and Engineering Management Society) Bangalore Chapter, Chairman of IEEE GOLD Bangalore Chapter and Executive committee member of IEEE Bangalore Section. Shiv holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and an Engineering degree from Karnataka Regional Engineering College, Surathkal, India.

Frank Lin Liang: Frank Lin Liang is a Technology Evangelist who covers Solaris technologies within Sun. He has more than 20 years experience in IT professional. He has worked as unix system administrator and developer on several Unix platforms. He also has skills on software application system design and development including OO methodology, Java and C++. He is Sun Certified Architect, Sun Certified Developer, and Sun Certified Programmer.

Stephen Lau: Steve is a software engineer in the Solaris Kernel Development group at Sun Microsystems. He is currently part of the OpenSolaris engineering team, and has been working on issues such as SCM (Source Code Management), build issues, and anything else to try and facilitate open development. He is also working part-time with the Kernel Performance group in the areas of CMT, NUMA, and scheduling. Prior to joining Sun, Steve received his B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science (High Performance & Parallel Computation) from the University of California, San Diego.

Nils Nieuwejaar: Nils Nieuwejaar is a Senior Staff Engineer in the Solaris Kernel Technology group. He has been with Sun for ten years and in the Solaris group for three years. As a member of the Solaris organization he was part of the team that ported Solaris to AMD64 and was the lead of the BrandZ (AKA Linux Zones on Solaris) project. In his early days at Sun he worked on high performance computing, high-end clustering, and cluster-based file systems. He has a BA in Philosophy and Computer Science from Bowdoin College and an M.S. and PhD in Computer Science from Dartmouth College.

Erik Nordmark: Erik has been at Sun since 1989. He has spent most of this time on networking centered around IP such as IP Multicast, IPv6, Web performance, TCP/IP multithreading, STREAMS, as well as significant technical work in the Internet Engineering Task Force. The IETF work has included working on many parts of IPv6 and serving for five years as an IETF Area Director and as such a member of the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Currently his IETF work includes Scalable IPv6 Multihoming (shim6), Detecting Network Attachment (DNA).

Alex Peng: Alex Peng is a software engineer in Solaris network QE group based in Beijing. His work includes IPFilter, packet filter hooks, IP instance, packet event framework. Alex previously worked for UTStarcom, built several province networks for the big ChinaNet. He got M.S. in Communications Engineering from Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany, and B.S. from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.

Gary Pennington: I've worked for Sun since 1995 and I joined the Kernel group in 2000. I originally worked in the Solaris Resource Management group, helping to implement Resource Pools, Dynamic Resource Pools and SMF. I'm currently the technical lead of the OpenSolaris website. This means I get to work out fixes to problems with the website whilst at the same time working out how to improve the website and add new functionality over time.

Sriram Popuri: Sriram is working in Solaris Sustaining and Engineering group at SUN Microsystems for the past 3yrs. Works in Libraries and Naming area. One of the developers of BeleniX. (livecd distribution based on OpenSolaris) An OpenSolaris evangilist giving talks and demos at customer sites, conferences and universities. Sriram has his Masters in Computer Science from IIT-Guwahati.

Dan Price: Daniel Price is a Staff Engineer in the Solaris Kernel Group. He is currently the lead of the Solaris Zones team and has been a team member since the project's inception. Before working on Zones, Dan worked on Solaris I/O frameworks. He holds an Sc.B. with Honors in Computer Science from Brown University

Roman Shaposhnik: Roman Shaposhnik started his career in compilers back in '94 when he was faced with a necessity of writing a translator for the programming language he'd just invented (the language was so weird -- nobody else wanted to do the job). While studying mathematics in St.Petersburg State University he got sidetracked into the field of linguistics at which point his obsession with formal languages beyond human comprehension was totally incurable and eventually helped him land a job at Sun working on a C++ parser. Nowadays he works on Sun Studio compilers and tools as a Sun Studio Linux Architect and truly believes that our beloved  Moore's Law is dead and all software engineers have to learn how  to survive under a new sheriff in town: the Ahmdal's Law.

Sunay Tripathi: Sunay is a Sun Distinguished Engineer in Solaris Core OS group and has been with Solaris group for 10 years. He has designed, developed and led projects in SUN Solaris kernel/network environment to provide new functionality, performance, and scalability. He is the Architect for the new stack in Solaris 10 and is currently the architect for Solaris Network Virtualization and Resource Control (project Crossbow). The new architecture allows the system to vertically partition the workload using an IP classifier-based lock-less design. It significantly reduces the overheads of synchronization and cross communication between CPUs which significantly increases performance and scalability. Sunay was one of the key people for Network Cache and Accelerator (NCA), which provides alternate path from sockets layer all the way down to device driver and gave almost 2 times better performance for web type workloads over the pre FireEngine Solaris stack.

Philip Torchinsky: Philip Torchinsky, Solaris Evangeilst, joined Sun Microsystems in January of 2007. Philip worked for many companies, including universities, Russian Academy of Sciences, non-commercial and commercial companies as a senior system administrator or IT-manager. Implementing many projects related to UNIX-based networks development, Philip wrote two books in Russian: "UNIX system administration practical guide" and "Solaris operating system". Working in different environments in several European and Asian countries, he learnt the actual needs of business and non-commercial parties and glad to share the experience and explain Solaris best answers to the needs.

George Wilson: George Wilson is Senior Staff Engineer in the Solaris Software Group and has been with Sun for 12 years. He recently moved into the Solaris Network Attached Storage Group and is currently working on key enhancements to ZFS (Zettabyte File System). Prior to this, George was a member of the Revenue Products Engineering (RPE) Team and was responsible for diagnosing problems and developing fixes for Sun Cluster and ZFS. He was the Tech Lead for the ZFS backport to Solaris 10, a member of the Sun Ray team which ported Sun Ray Server to amd64, led an effort to improve Sun Clusters failover capabilities and has been an active member in the Atlanta OpenSolaris Community.

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